Bionet Group Researchers
Aurel A. Lazar has been a
professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University since
1988. He founded the Bionet Group in 2003. In silico, his research
interests are in time encoding machines, time domain computing and
time decoding machines. In vivo, his interests are in information
representations and odor signal processing in the olfactory system of
the Drosophila.
Robert J.
Turetsky is interested in spike signal processing, dendritic
computation and spike-based models of audition. Rob is primarily
interested in the analogy between DSP and neural computing.
Anmo Kim is interested
in the information encoding/processing mechanism in neural systems.
In particular, he is trying to build a computational model of
olfactory systems based on single cell recordings from fruit flies.
Eftychios Pnevmatikakis is interested
in information representation in neural systems. He is also
interested in the modeling of biological and neural systems by using
deterministic and random techniques.
Lev E. Givon
is interested in the computational capabilities of neural subnetworks
in biological sensory systems. He is currently developing a model of
multidimensional visual signal processing based upon time-encoded
signal representations.
Yevgeniy Slutskiy is interested in signal
representation in the spike domain and signal processing that takes
place in the dendrites of neurons. He seeks to combine theoretical
results with computational methods and experimental techniques to
study and model neural circuits.
Former Bionet Members
Noah Berland (M.S. February
'08) investigated models of bursting neurons and topologies of bursting
networks. He examined conditions under which small changes to neuron or
synapse model parameters lead to drastically different network
behaviors.